African Football Shorts

2010, 4 minutes

Ahead of the World Cup in Africa, people from across the continent tell the stories of how football impacts on their lives in a new series of African Football Shorts.

Who’s catering for the millions of fans outside South Africa’s Ellis Park Stadium? Who’s selling football strips in Nigeria’s bustling Lagos market? How do Kenyans watch the matches in Kibera, one of Nairobi’s notorious slums? Why can’t women compete, or referee, in the tournament? And are you ever too old to play the beautiful game? These are just some of the questions that the Television Trust for the Environment (TVE) have asked, interviewing a range of extraordinary people across Africa to see how football impacts the lives of people across the continent. They include Mafarana Gogos, a team of footballing grannies of a remote village in the backwoods of Nkowankowa in Limpopo Province in South Africa.

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